"Like" My Page, but Stay on Your Own

Being in the profession that I am, as a real estate broker, I am often presented with the invitation of well-meaning professionals and the likes of them with requests to "Like" their page.  For those of you that may not be familiar with the term, they are asking me (and you) to subscribe usually to their Facebook page or some other social media platform in which they pitch products, ideas, business centered language in hopes that I will utilize their services or buy their products, etc.  It has become conscious for me the amount of energy that businesses and people spend to get my attention.   Their hope is that they will get my attention, then keep it to the extent it profits them (i.e., improve their bottom lines).  To this, I encourage you to take an inventory of your life and to cut off the life's  blood supply that's going to external sources.  Take your attention back!  It is yours to direct, to scrutinize how you use it, reserve it, exploit it or to be a good steward over it.  Have you ever considered how your life would look if you detached from all your power centers that currently has you locked in as though it is your adult size umbilical cord?  Today, detach. Reclaim your power and use it to materialize your own vision, call or destiny for your own life.  So, yes, "Like" my page, but be sure stay on your own because one day you are going to have to give an account for how you lived the life that was lent to you for a purpose.

Smell Your Roses....

How well do you enjoy your accomplishments before you are on to the next thing? I experienced many great feats this past week and had it not been that my assistant's daughter got really sick I would've kept on going. I had created a list between that night and morning of the next things. I was on to the next tasks without pausing to experience the deeper gratitude that I felt for the strength, energy and will that I know God had given me to finish strong and meet many deadlines by doing first things first. What will it cost you to stop and recharge? Or to simply enjoy the moment of being free of the thing you just finished? Let me tell you...when we don't stop we are robbed of the re-charge that comes with rest, creativity re-energized, jubilant praise we give our God, deep gratitude and appreciation for ourselves and renewed hope to say the least. After your next accomplishment, take time to "smell your roses" before they die and you have to wait for the next bloom, or smell someone else's.